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May 1, 1998 Books Feature
The True Story
Grandfather fought in the Philippines -- after that, things get kinda blurry …
"...those discrepancies, point to a relatively recent crisis in African-American culture...."
Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax
How $50,000 Is Shaking Up Austin's Black Artists
Buried Treasure
"...unused funds lies in wait. Already ear-marked for the African-American arts community, it feels like an elusive miracle cure..."
Feb. 23, 1996 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland
Day Trips
"...The Museum of African-American Life and Culture in Dallas preserves the rich heritage..."
June 16, 1995 Column
For His Dance (Re)current Unrest, Charles O. Anderson Keeps Moving
Through the pandemic and other obstacles, the choreographer and UT teacher continues to adapt
"...audience could be present at any point of American history and witness again and again and again the oppression..."
Oct. 16, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Juan Capistran
Visiting artist's double exhibition at UT VAC digs deep into cultural identity
"...deft in what we might hazard to call recombinant history, meaning: By breakdancing atop a Carl Andre floor sculpture,..."
Feb. 14, 2014 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell
Letters @ 3AM
Americans no longer look or sound like, and will never again look or sound like, this country's rigid image of an "American"
"...the obvious and put it mildly), Anglo-Saxon-Celts, Hispanics, and African-Americans did not mix much and tended to keep to..."
Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura
'An Independent Person'
A Conversation With Randi Shade
"...process, and more specifically for the timing of the African-American Youth Resource Center funding decision. Any comment on that?..."
June 3, 2011 News Feature by Michael King
Letters @ 3AM
Globalization isn't only something that's happening to our economy: Globalization is happening to us – to our bodies, our families, and our psyches
"...Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was one of the few African-Americans with a voice. But overall, the 1960 Democratic Convention..."
April 25, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura
Changing Places
The new Pickle Elementary School is a crucible of the changing St. Johns neighborhood
"...north East Austin, was one of the city's first African-American neighborhoods, and for decades its citizens had to cross..."
Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael May
Postmarks
Brown Right To Fight
"...Graglia did, that failure is not a disgrace in African-American or Hispanic culture? Or that because minorities are "lower..."
Sept. 19, 1997 Column
Engineering Quality – and Equality
The African-American Quality of Life plan gets aired out; NAACP unsatisfied
"...Thursday evening, as city and community leaders presented their African-American Quality of Life Implementation Plan in Council chambers. "What..."
Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle
He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.
"...and mind. And you know why? Because they're right. History will be seen that we were on the right..."
March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
All the Way With LBJ's Play
Bill Rauch talks staging 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society'
"...All the Way for OSF's American Revolutions cycle of history plays, it only made sense to return for the..."
Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires
The Color of Fire
The Austin Fire Department is making another attempt at staff diversity – will it do any better this time?
"...and – in theory – increase the number of African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and women becoming Austin firefighters...."
May 13, 2011 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Exhibitionism
The Dog Show: Our Bowsers, Ourselves
"...in the world. It casts back at us our history, the deeds we remember and the deeds we've forgotten,..."
April 25, 1997 Arts Review
Collateral Damage
Assessing the cost of service for minority veterans
"...50% of homeless Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are African-American...."
July 17, 2015 News Feature by Kahron Spearman
NAACP and LULAC: Texas Education System Violates Federal Law
State board members say they're just whining
"...into question the persistent use of "minority" to describe African-American and Latino students in Texas public schools. The TEA's..."
Dec. 31, 2010 News Feature by Michael King
A Land Shaded in Melancholy Hues
The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.
"...a century after slavery's abolishment, the repercussions of that history -- and of the Confederacy's defeat -- still resound..."
March 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Nationtime
Searing documentary from the 1972 National Black Political Convention finally restored
"...archival document that preserves a seminal event in American history on film, Nationtime is great stuff. But as a..."
Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Trouble at Station 15
Austin firefighter sues city after officials stonewall unequal treatment
"...stated mission of fair treatment for all. As an African-American woman, she said this mission statement – which includes..."
Jan. 16, 2009 News Feature by Caitlin Meredith
bee luther-hatchee
It's rare for a piece of theatre staged in Austin to touch an issue close to the city's heart, and that immediacy by itself recommends bee luther-hatchee. But what makes the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production more worthy of attention is the skill with which it serves up the thorny issues authenticity of voice and artistic representation by people of different cultures.
"...train to the Afterlife in bee luther-hatchee -- in African-American folklore, "the stop after hell" -- they're sights to..."
Aug. 9, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Writes of Spring
Off the Bookshelf
"...larger, happier pie. Instead of creating a bitter revisionist history, she lets the glowing moments of her 13-year marriage..."
April 3, 1998 Books Review
Painting Race
Getting Inside Michael Ray Charles' Provocative Images
"...then?" But Michael Ray Charles is a young, soft-spoken African-American family man, born in Lafayette, Louisiana. He earned an..."
Oct. 24, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen
Whose House
Making a Place for Black Theatre in Austin
"...that he believes is wrong with the relationships between African-Americans and the national theatrical framework: Black theatre is not..."
Jan. 17, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini
How Do You Define Soul Food?
Adrian Miller explores where Southern food ends and soul food begins
"...rich culinary tradition born out of necessity and innovation. African-American cooks created the Southern style as “an amalgamation of..."
Sept. 20, 2013 Food Post by Toni Tipton-Martin
We P.2ed
Art that surprises, delights, disturbs and, yes, bores.
"...House (both of the Louisiana State Museum), New Orleans African-American Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art and the Newcomb..."
Jan. 12, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell
SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada
Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date
"...church, and the longest serving marijuana prisoner in American history.
(World Premiere)..."
Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
"A different brand of law enforcement" doesn't have to be a bad thing.
"...an ad hoc "dialogue," from familiar faces in the African-American community -- Black Citizens Task Force leader Dorothy Turner,..."
Nov. 28, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
Austin's Sustainable Secret
Student-founded Green Is the New Black makes renewable energy at Huston-Tillotson
"...reduction in municipal waste on campus. "People think that African-Americans don't care about the environment," says Jackson, "and that..."
